PFH1173655: Vietnam: Tympanum design for bronze 'frog drum' Dong Son culture, c. 400-100 BCE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170195: China: Mei Lanfang, famous Beijing (Peking) Opera artist (1894-1961)., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174018: Vietnam: Blue and White Fish Plate with fanciful depiction of flounder like fish with extravagant fins swimming amongst water plants. Later Lê Dynasty (1533-1788) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171741: China: Liu Zongyuan (Liu Tsungyuan, courtesy name Zizhou, 773-819), Tang Dynasty classicist and writer. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172764: Japan: Portrait of a Beauty (Bijinga) by Kitagawa Chikanobu / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172509: Iran: 'A Persian Merchant', sketch and watercolour by Justin Perkins, Urmia (1839) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170086: India: The 'cotton plant' as imagined by John Mandeville (c.1371) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174252: China / Silk Road: Panel from Dandan Oilik believed to represent the Hindu God Ganesh, 7th-8th century CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171625: China: A man preparing tea. Detail of a mural in the tomb of Zhang Kuangzheng, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170797: Thailand: Two novice monks stand next to a reclining Buddha, Wat Phra That Haripunchai, Lamphun (c. 1920), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174680: Germany: Noah supervising the construction of the ark as represented in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170228: China: Shanghai - Suzhou Creek and the Huangpu River from the air, c.1935., Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171791: Japan: Poster advertisement for the NYK Line steamship company, 1916 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170749: Japan: Memorial monument to First Sino-Japanese War (1894 - 1895), Nagoya, 1921. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170981: India: Above: Vasant Ragini, blue-skinned and crowned, with seven female musicians and dancers; Below: Asavari Ragini, blue-skinned, charming snakes and fish with wind instrument, with attendant sitting in tree. (Ragmala miniature painting, c.1800). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172852: Japan: Four young women at their toilette, hand-tinted photograph c. 1895, probably by T. Enami, Enami Nobukuni (1859-1929) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174255: China: Devotees listening to a sermon of the Buddha, mural from Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves, Kuqa, Xinjiang, 6th-7th century CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171368: Japan: Lost Horyuji Temple fresco from a pre-1949 photograph: No.6 wall, Amitabha Buddha Paradise detail, Avalokitesvara face. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173835: Vietnam: A jar with lotus and chrysanthemum motifs, patterned brown glaze ceramic, Trần dynasty, 13th-14th century / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174661: Tunisia: Mosaic of a fish from Tunis, Roman period, c.3rd-5th century CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171159: China: A Hermit in the Mountains, illustrated by Chinese artist Zhu Henian in c.1775-1825. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170840: USA: Tlingit inhabitants of Lituya Bay, Alaska, c.1875. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171104: China: Crowned bodhisattva in painted terracotta, late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171217: Japan: 'Hyakki Yako', 'Night Parade of One Hundred Demons', detail from a scroll, 18th century. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173277: Vietnam: Map of the coast of Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin by Jan Luyken (1679) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172043: India / Burma: Japanese WWII propaganda leaflet - An Indian National Army soldier shows a subservient Indian cleaning John Bull's boots what the Burmese independence movement has attained / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171662: China: Man in a procession (detail) in a mural in the tomb of Han Shixun, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174547: Iraq / Italy: Fresh drinking water. Illustration from Ibn Butlan's Taqwim al-sihhah or 'Maintenance of Health' (Baghdad, 11th century) published in Italy as the Tacuinum Sanitatis in the 14th century, Italian School, (14th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174151: China: A group of Chinese men gambling and smoking, 1844 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173677: Vietnam / Cambodia: Coin from the Kingdom of Funan / Phu Nam, c. 100-550 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173597: Vietnam: Jealousy in a rural setting - traditional woodblock painting from Dong Ho village, Bac Ninh Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171333: Vietnam: 'Tombes de Bonzes' (Tombs of Buddhist Monks), 1930. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173348: Vietnam / France: French artillerymen at Palan bring up their guns against the Black Flags, 1 September, 1883 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172768: Iran: Page from an illuminated 1604 copy of Tuhfat al-Iraqayn by Afzal al-Din Shirvani Khaqani (1126-1198) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171641: China: A woman dancing. Detail of a mural in Zhang Family tomb M6, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170331: Burma/ Myanmar: Gawdawpalin Pagoda in Bagan, Upper Burma, c.1920s., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images